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1. PRAGMATIC ANALYSIS OF SELECTED POLITICAL SPEECHES OF PRESIDENT MUHAMMADU BUHARI
» CHAPTER ONE: INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background to the Study Language is a unique attribute of humans, which is used as a chief medium of communication, for building interpersonal relationships, exchange of ideas and passing of information. Martinet A. defines it as “a formidable instrument of communication... by which human experience ...Continue Reading »
Item Type: Project Material | 65 pages | 10,227 engagements | Source: English Language Projects & Research Materials
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2. STATUS STRUGGLE: EVALUATION OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND THE INDIGENOUS LANGUAGES...
» Abstract The presence and the use of the English language in Nigeria has been seen as a threat to the indigenous languages. The truth lies in the fact that Nigeria has adopted the language of her colonial master and has given it priority over the indigenous languages that were in existence before her existence. This act can lead to loss of identity as language is not only a means of communic...Continue Reading »
Item Type: Project Material | 65 pages | 18,828 engagements | Source: English Language Projects & Research Materials
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3. THE INFLUENCE OF THE LANGUAGE OF SOCIAL MEDIA ON THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE
» ABSTRACT The boom in the use of social media in our time has no doubt brought a lot alteration in different language conventions. The early users of social media battled with space and time. Since social media language is in the borderline of speech and writing they created unusual acronyms and some other new words, like ‘u’, ur, ‘unfriend’ etc not only to communicate faster but also...Continue Reading »
Item Type: Project Material | 65 pages | 16,660 engagements | Source: English Language Projects & Research Materials
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4. A SYNTACTIC ANALYSIS OF SELECTED CLAUSAL COORDINATES AS USED IN THE AMENDED 1999...
» ABSTRACT The language of law has been viewed by many as difficult to understand primarily because of archaism in its morpho syntactic structure. Also, the Latin and French maxims that have characterised legalese have prevented some researchers from delving into it. Another issue of concern to some researchers has to do with the longwinded sentence structure of legalese. Therefore, this study lo...Continue Reading »
Item Type: Project Material | 65 pages | 7,734 engagements | Source: English Language Projects & Research Materials
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5. A FUNCTIONAL ANALYSIS OF MOROA FOLKTALES
» ABSTRACT The research tittled, “AFunctional Analysis of Moroa Folktales”provides insights into the status and nature of African traditional oral art as a literary form for aesthetic and educational purposes. The study revolves around the collection, analysis and the functional analysis of folktales among the Moroa in Kaduna state.Attention is paid to language, culture, literature and the...Continue Reading »
Item Type: Project Material | 65 pages | 9,388 engagements | Source: English Language Projects & Research Materials
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6. A CONVERSATION ANALYSIS OF “TURN-TAKING” IN THE ELECTRONIC MEDIA
» ABSTRACT Turn Taking in conversation varies from one language to another because Turn Taking is usually bound by natural etiquettes attributable to the people‘s culture. Turn Taking in Yorùbá conversation is no exception. It reflects to a large extent the culture of the Yorùbá People. Hitherto, politeness, honorific pronouns, greeting, proverbs, prayer etc. are major factors in Yoruba Tur...Continue Reading »
Item Type: Project Material | 65 pages | 9,756 engagements | Source: English Language Projects & Research Materials
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7. A DECONSTRUCTIVE READING OF WOLE SOYINKA’S DEATH AND THE KING’S HORSEMAN AND...
» ABSTRACT African literary elites have responded to the call by Africans to free the continent from all forms of colonial and slave mentality. While others have responded overtly, Soyinka does so covertly. As a result, over time, critical commentaries on his works have been on the mythical presentation of the Yoruba world as a microcosm of the entire African continent and the post colonial ex...Continue Reading »
Item Type: Project Material | 65 pages | 9,474 engagements | Source: English Language Projects & Research Materials
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8. A LINGUISTIC STUDY OF THE NIGERIAN-NESS’ OF NIGERIAN PIDGIN IN SELECTED LITERA...
» ABSTRACT This thesis titled “A Linguistic study of the „Nigerian ness‟ of Nigerian Pidgin in Selected Literary Works” was embarked upon because of the resistance many Nigerians have to the use of Nigerian Pidgin (NP); they see it as foreign and a corruption of the English Language. Besides, many people, especially non linguists feel that pidgin Englishes in West Africa are all the sa...Continue Reading »
Item Type: Project Material | 65 pages | 8,451 engagements | Source: English Language Projects & Research Materials
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9. A LINGUISTIC STYLISTIC ANALYSIS OF CHIMAMANDA ADICHIE’S PURPLE HIBISCUS AND HA...
» ABSTRACT Style is one‟s way of doing a thing. It can be of dressing, speaking, acting, teaching and writing which is influenced by a lot of factors or ideologies such as history, religion and culture. However, the style of a writer albeit creative may pose a challenge to readers. This study attempts a linguistic stylistic analysis of Chimamanda Adichie‟s Purple Hibiscus and Half of a Ye...Continue Reading »
Item Type: Project Material | 65 pages | 9,119 engagements | Source: English Language Projects & Research Materials
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10. A LINGUISTIC-STYLISTIC ANALYSIS OF THE LANGUAGE OF HUMUOR IN OPA WILLIAMS’ “...
» ABSTRACT One of the most intriguing things about language is its redeployment to accomplish a multiplicity of functions by different people in different places at different times. One of such functions of language is humour making. People often make use of humour in social, political and cultural interactions through the skillful manipulation of diverse structures of language. Underlining the m...Continue Reading »
Item Type: Project Material | 65 pages | 7,917 engagements | Source: English Language Projects & Research Materials
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11. A MORPHOLOGICAL ANALYSIS OF LOAN WORDS AMONG YORUBA SPEAKERS OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE
» ABSTRACT The thesis entitled “A Morphological Analysis of Loan Words among Yoruba Speakers of English in Kaduna Metropolis” is a documentation and analysis of some English, Hausa and Arabic loan words in Yoruba language. The study is propelled by the following observations: that a large part of the vocabulary of the Yoruba Language are loan words from other languages particularly the Englis...Continue Reading »
Item Type: Project Material | 65 pages | 10,400 engagements | Source: English Language Projects & Research Materials
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12. A PORTRAIT OF AFRICAN-AMERICAN WOMEN IN SOME SELECTED WORKS OF ALICE WALKER AND ...
» ABSTRACT This work focuses on African American women in the Black family structure as portrayed by Toni Morrison in her novels; Paradise, Sula, The Bluest Eye, and Alice Walker in The Color Purple, Meridian, and In Love and Trouble: Stories of Black Women. Considering the crucial role of the family unit in the socialising process, attention has been drawn to the effectiveness of Blac...Continue Reading »
Item Type: Project Material | 65 pages | 7,927 engagements | Source: English Language Projects & Research Materials
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13. A PRAGMATIC ANALYSIS OF FEATURES OF NIGERIAN ENGLISH IN THE SUBTITLES OF SELECTE...
» ABSTRACT Several theories have been developed by linguists all over the world in explaining pragmatics as a sub field of linguistics. What is central in the contributions of the scholars is identification of „invisible‟ meanings from what is said or written by the intended listeners as intentionally meant by speakers/writers of such utterances that have been made or written. In this study, ...Continue Reading »
Item Type: Project Material | 65 pages | 9,697 engagements | Source: English Language Projects & Research Materials
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14. A PRAGMATIC ANALYSIS OF THE INTERPLAY BETWEEN CONTEXT AND ILLOCUTIONARY ACTS ON ...
» ABSTRACT Proverbs play very important functional, communicative and pragmatic roles in Igala language. Their social and contextual importance has been attested to by ethnographers, philosophers, literary and other language experts, as instruments of communication, cultural education and channel of language aesthetics, as a house of wisdom, garnished and sustained among the Igala of Northern ...Continue Reading »
Item Type: Project Material | 65 pages | 8,859 engagements | Source: English Language Projects & Research Materials
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15. A PRAGMATIC INTERPRETATION OF CHILD LANGUAGE
» ABSTRACT This thesis titled “A Pragmatic Interpretation of Child Language: A Case Study of Telegraphic Speech has been carried out to determine the role of context in understanding language use by children or children‟s speech. Pragmatics is the study of speaker context meaning…. It is a component of linguistic study that goes beyond grammatical competence or well formed sentence to fi...Continue Reading »
Item Type: Project Material | 65 pages | 7,916 engagements | Source: English Language Projects & Research Materials
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16. A PRAGMATIC STUDY OF THE INTERFACE BETWEEN INFORMATIVENESS AND CONCISENESS IN TH...
» ABSTRACT Language is the chief medium of communication used for all forms of social interaction, the most important of which is passing and receiving information and messages. Advertisement also a form of communication, relies on language to pass its message in order to attract consumers to what it is advertising. This study, which is a pragmatic analysis of the interface between informativenes...Continue Reading »
Item Type: Project Material | 65 pages | 7,311 engagements | Source: English Language Projects & Research Materials
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17. A PSYCHOANALYTIC READING OF TONI MORRISON‟S A MERCY AND GLORIA NAYLOR‟S THE ...
» ABSTRACT The study of Psychoanalysis over the years has helped to reveal the relation between the mind, language and personality trait which are not easily observable or revealed in our regular acts and use of language. By placing much emphasis on literary elements such as metaphor, metonym or symbols, literary psychoanalysis has contributed to the exploration of repressed thoughts, motives and...Continue Reading »
Item Type: Project Material | 65 pages | 8,284 engagements | Source: English Language Projects & Research Materials
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18. A STUDY OF IDEOLOGICAL EMBEDDING IN THE GUARDIAN AND DAILY TRUST EDITORIALS
» ABSTRACT This work is a study of ideology and its workings in two Nigerian Newspapers: The Guardian and Daily Trust using Modality as the analytical element. Modality as a property of language use is generally exploited by language users and its role in newspaper editorials is of importance in that editorial writers tend to make use of it to establish either a positive comment or bias in ...Continue Reading »
Item Type: Project Material | 65 pages | 8,495 engagements | Source: English Language Projects & Research Materials
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19. A STYLISTIC STUDY OF PARALLELISM IN THE PRESIDENTIAL SPEECHES OF PRESIDENTS BARR...
» CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background to the Study The role of language in every society is multifunctional; it serves various purposes ranging from communication to command and persuasion. The language of politics is a persuasive one and hence, politicians are expected to be conversant with this characteristic of language. The elegant use of language to pe...Continue Reading »
Item Type: Project Material | 65 pages | 7,577 engagements | Source: English Language Projects & Research Materials
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20. A SYNTACTIC ANALYSIS OF THE USE OF AUXILIARY VERBS IN OFFICE DOCUMENTS
» ABSTRACT This study is specifically concerned with the syntactic analysis of the use of auxiliary verbs in office documents by writers of office documentsusing Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida (IBB) University,Lapai Niger State and the interpersonal meanings, and the various interpretations deduced from the use of the English auxiliary verbs in the office documents using as a case study from selec...Continue Reading »
Item Type: Project Material | 65 pages | 8,670 engagements | Source: English Language Projects & Research Materials
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21. A SYSTEMIC FUNCTIONAL ANALYSIS OF ENGLISH MOOD SYSTEM IN SELECTED DRAMATIC TEXTS
» ABSTRACT The research is titled: A Systemic Functional Analysis of English Mood System in Selected Dramatic Texts. The study seeks to investigate the extent to which Shaw‘s and Osofisan‘s choices and the structures of the elements of mood system in their texts, Arms and the Man and Women of Owu affect their abilities to express the interpersonal meanings they set out to convey. The ...Continue Reading »
Item Type: Project Material | 65 pages | 8,806 engagements | Source: English Language Projects & Research Materials
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22. ACHIEVING UNITY AND COHERENCE THROUGH CONTRADICTIONS IN THE NOVELS OF ACHEBE, IY...
» ABSTRACT This study attempts an exploration of how unity and coherence through contradictions are achieved in Achebe‟s Things Fall Apart, Iyayi‟s Violence and Habila‟s Measuring Time. It is significant to state that the choice of these texts is informed by the need to comprehend how various generations of Nigerian writers have negotiated the contradictions, tensions, distortions and c...Continue Reading »
Item Type: Project Material | 65 pages | 8,190 engagements | Source: English Language Projects & Research Materials
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23. AFRICAN IMAGE IN AFRICAN AMERICAN LITERATURE: A CASE STUDY OF LANGSTON HUGHES’...
» ABSTRACT This thesis is concerned with the how image of Africa is presented in African American literature using Langston Hughes‟ The Panther and the Lash: Poems of our Time (1964) and Yusef Komunyakaa‟s Pleasure Dome: New and Collected Poems (2001). The study employs New Historicism as an analytical tool to explore how the African American writers use poetry as a mouthpiece to ...Continue Reading »
Item Type: Project Material | 65 pages | 7,426 engagements | Source: English Language Projects & Research Materials
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24. PROBLEMS ASSOCIATED IN MADE IN NIGERIA GOODS. A CASE STUDY OF SHOE
» CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background of the study In Nigerian, shoes have become one of the many principal products in the market, even in the biggest market so far in West Africa (Onitsha main market). Shoes are also among the priority products consumed by everyone; hence the market is a growing one. With the restrictors on the importation of foreign shoes, the industry has ...Continue Reading »
Item Type: Project Material | 65 pages | 11,024 engagements | Source: Business Admin. And Management Projects & Research Materials
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25. AN EXAMINATION OF SENTENCES AND THEIR APPROPRIATENESS IN SELECTED NIGERIAN CHILD...
» ABSTRACT This thesis has examined sentences and their appropriateness in selected Nigerian children‟s novels. The novels include An African Night Entertainment by Cyprian Ekwensi, Tales out of School by Nkem Nwankwo, Akpan and the Smugglers by Rosemary Uwemedimo and Adventures of Souza by Kola Onadipe. Using the Traditional Grammar model, sentences from these texts were classified a...Continue Reading »
Item Type: Project Material | 65 pages | 8,850 engagements | Source: English Language Projects & Research Materials